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In genetic epistemology, as in developmental psychology, too, there is never an absolute beginning.

Evolution is an indispensable component of any satisfying explanation of our psychology.

Evolutionary psychology is one of four sciences that are bringing human nature back into the picture.

Like all science, psychology is knowledge; and like science again, it is knowledge of a definite thing, the mind.

The outlines of the needed psychology of becoming can be discovered by looking within ourselves; for it is knowledge of our own uniqueness that supplies the first, and probably the best, hints for acquiring orderly knowledge of others.

From a scientist's perspective, to understand everything that you need to know about human beings, you only have to tinker with all the mechanical parts of genes and the brain until there are no more secrets left.

In Psychology we deal with minds and their processes, and leave out of account as far as possible the objects that we get to know by means of them.

The most profound change that genetics brings about might not be scientific at all. It might be mental and even spiritual enrichment: a more expansive sense of who we humans are, existentially, and where we came from, and how we fit with other life on earth.

From all this it follows what the general character of the problem of the development of a body of scientific knowledge is, in so far as it depends on elements internal to science itself.

Genetics is crude, but neuroscience goes directly to work on the brain, and the mind follows.